diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index 77c334341d..6ba3c2a422 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -1220,6 +1220,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA =						\
   %D%/packages/patches/ghostscript-no-header-id.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/ghostscript-no-header-uuid.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/ghostscript-no-header-creationdate.patch \
+  %D%/packages/patches/gitg-fix-positional-argument.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/glib-appinfo-watch.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/glib-networking-gnutls-binding.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/glib-skip-failing-test.patch		\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
index e31931dbdb..7aa7180f5e 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
@@ -11888,7 +11888,8 @@ (define-public gitg
                                   name "-" version ".tar.xz"))
               (sha256
                (base32
-                "0aa6djcf7rjw0q688mfy47k67bbjpnx6aw1xs94abfhgn6gipdkz"))))
+                "0aa6djcf7rjw0q688mfy47k67bbjpnx6aw1xs94abfhgn6gipdkz"))
+              (patches (search-patches "gitg-fix-positional-argument.patch"))))
     (build-system meson-build-system)
     (arguments
      (list
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/gitg-fix-positional-argument.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/gitg-fix-positional-argument.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1d3513921c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/gitg-fix-positional-argument.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From 1978973b12848741b08695ec2020bac98584d636 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
+Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:17:52 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] meson: drop unused argument for i18n.merge_file()
+
+Ignored in Meson < 0.60.0, deprecated since 0.60.1 and fatal since 0.61.0.
+
+data/meson.build:8:0: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.
+data/meson.build:44:0: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.
+---
+ data/meson.build | 2 --
+ 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
+index a8b90fd1..2413531d 100644
+--- a/data/meson.build
++++ b/data/meson.build
+@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ desktop_config = configuration_data()
+ desktop_config.set('icon', application_id)
+ desktop_config.set('binary', gitg_name)
+ i18n.merge_file(
+-  desktop,
+   type: 'desktop',
+   input: configure_file(
+     input: desktop + '.in.in',
+@@ -42,7 +41,6 @@ appdata_config = configuration_data()
+ appdata_config.set('app-id', application_id)
+ appdata_config.set('gettext', gitg_name)
+ i18n.merge_file(
+-  appdata,
+   type: 'xml',
+   input: configure_file(
+     input: appdata + '.in.in',
+-- 
+GitLab
+